Atoz 77
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 10, 2009 7:57:46 GMT -6
I know what you mean. The living things we know are run by chemical reactions. They perform many different functions, like sensing their environment, reacting to it, finding food, ingesting and digesting it, secreting wastes, not to mention reproducing. In all the living things we know, these separate functions are usually perfomed by specialized structures or organs. It hard for us to imagine how a crystal could perform these functions without chemical reactions, unless it had separate structures somehow.
Another thing that bothers me is why a creature living in space evolved to feed on the life force of planets? Especially since there's a much more abundant source of energy directly pouring out of the stars. Feeding on that energy would make a lot more sense to me.
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Post by Luke on Apr 15, 2009 10:29:18 GMT -6
the energy for all the life on Earth ultimately comes from the sun. That would make sense. I remember the fan club I used to belong to talked aobut this creature one time, and one of the guys suggested it was another kind of Doomsday machine, built by an alien race.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 17, 2009 8:01:33 GMT -6
That's actually a good idea, because there's another thing about it that bothers me (I apologize for bringing up evolution again since I know some people don't approve). Evolution basically works by slowly accumulating small adaptations. If a space creature evolved to feed on the life force of entire planets, it would have to have a ridiculously long life span. Say it evolved in a gas cloud, where it fed on other life units in the cloud. In order to change to feeding on planets, it would have to wait for life to evolve on a planet first. Then it would have to adapt some means of feeding on it. Then it would have to wait for life to evolve on another planet. And so on...!
It may be hard to see how it evolved naturally, but it could have been designed and constructed for a specific purpose.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 20, 2009 7:49:54 GMT -6
"Home Soil" -- This episode didn't make much sense to me. Okay, I can imagine a silicon-based, microchip-like life form. I can imagine that thousands of them might link up to produce a single intelligent entity. But if one little fragment was taken up to the ship, how in the world could it be intelligent all by itself? It would be like slicing out a piece of someone's brain and expecting it to talk to you. Especially since they confirmed that it was the salt water in the ground that connected the crystals together. I don't get it.
Plus, it was obvious that the thing had to feed on solar energy (what other source would it have been exposed to on the planet's surface?). So when it began to grow on board the ship, cutting off all possible sources of energy would have been the FIRST thing I thought of.
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